This has continually been a big debate within our planning committe. Does animation qualify as a comic? I certainly think that soon we will have to make that part of the category list. This industry is way too adaptive and growing to think that we won't have to evolve as we go along.

That's fair, Zort, but there is already an entire Flash community out there not unlike the webcomic community.
You can try branching them together, but unless you're l33t in both the transition is rough.

My opinion is, if there's an animated movement (no camera movement, but character movement), than it can't be considered a comic, no matter if there are comic elements like speech baloons.
So most of flash movies couldn't be considered comics.
But I think it would be justified introducing such award in case there's no relevant award for flash cartoons already. However, I think there is.